Amy Gilson, Ph.D., has served since February 2022 as OEHHA’s Deputy Director for External and Legislative Affairs. In this role, Amy connects the office’s scientific work with broad audiences and statewide conversations. She helps shape and advance OEHHA’s communications and legislative priorities, guides its communications channels – including the main website, Proposition 65 warnings website, and social media, and leads the office’s engagement with the media and Legislature.
Prior to joining OEHHA, Amy was the policy manager of the environmental nonprofit Californians Against Waste. She earlier served the Legislature as committee consultant for the California State Senate Committee on Transportation and legislative aide to Assemblymember Bill Quirk, and was a California Council on Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the California State Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. She has also launched or expanded multiple university-based science policy initiatives, including as senior program director and instructor of the University of California at Riverside’s Science to Policy Program.
Amy received her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. secondary field in Science, Technology, and Society Studies from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She holds a BS in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.